We caught up to find John Dolan, Justin "Choctaw" Kruger, and the player in the small blind looking down at a flop of . The small blind checked to Dolan in the cutoff and he checked as well. Kruger checked his option from the button and the turn was the .
The small blind checked for a secnod time and Dolan opted to fire out a bet of 1,025. Kruger quickly called and the small blind got out of the way. The board finished with the and both players checked. Dolan showed for a flopped pair of nines and Kruger mucked his hand. Dolan is now above starting stack with about 16,000 while Kruger's stack has fallen to roughly 24,000.
With a raise to 700 and a call before him, Harrison Gimbel three-bet all in for 6,975 from the cutoff. Steve Taylor, the original raiser, was the lone caller and he tabled .
Gimbel turned over for the same hand, but his Day 1b came to an end when the board ran out , which gave Taylor a flush.
James Calderaro, down to about 4,000, got his short stack into the middle with . However, he ran into an opponent's and failed to catch up as the board rolled out .
We stumbled upon David "ODB" Baker's table to see well over 15,000 in chips in the middle of the table. The board read and Baker's opponent moved all in for his last 8,025.
Baker sat pondering a call for over a minute while playing with the necessary amount of chips to call. Eventually, though, Baker decided to let go of his hand, awarding the pot to his opponent. With the loss of this pot, Baker is now sitting on about 18,500 in tournament chips.
During the last level we found 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker tweet the following:
CMONEYMAKER Chris MoneymakerLevel 6 at winstar stuck in neutral. Have moved off starting stack of 15k by more than 3k either way. Sitting in 14.5kAugust 31 2012
However, when we came across Moneymaker during this level, he had amassed what looked like many more chips than his starting stack. We saw him three-bet an opponent to an unknown amount from the small blind. His opponent called and the flop came . Moneymaker continued out with a bet of 2,400 and his opponent called.
The fell on fourth and Moneymaker's aggression continued as he put 4,200 into the center of the table. His opponent finally chose to let go of his hand and Moneymaker dragged in the pot.
It seems that after a stagnant day so far, Moneymaker has finally hit his rush as he is now sitting on about 27,000 after about 20 minutes into this level.
. The small blind checked to Dolan in the cutoff and he checked as well. Kruger checked his option from the button and the turn was the 
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and both players checked. Dolan showed 
for a flopped pair of nines and Kruger mucked his hand. Dolan is now above starting stack with about 16,000 while Kruger's stack has fallen to roughly 24,000.
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, which gave Taylor a flush.
and failed to catch up as the board rolled out 
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and Baker's opponent moved all in for his last 8,025.
